Big Crane on Campus

Infobox Television episode | Title = Big Crane on Campus
Series = Frasier
Season = 7
Episode = 14
Airdate = 3 February 2000
Writer = Mark Reisman
Director = Sheldon Epps
Production =
Guests = Jean Smart (Lorna Lenley)
Prev = They're Playing Our Song
Next = Out with Dad

"Big Crane on Campus" is the fourteenth episode in season 7 of American sitcom "Frasier".

Cast and characters

Main cast and characters

*Kelsey Grammer – Dr. Frasier Crane
*David Hyde Pierce – Dr. Niles Crane
*John Mahoney – Martin Crane
*Jane Leeves – Daphne Moon
*Peri Gilpin – Roz Doyle

Plot outline

Frasier runs into Lorna Lenley at Café Nervosa, who went to his school and was one of the most popular girls. She is now working in real estate. He used to have a crush on her, but never had the courage to ask her out, and suddenly meeting her again, he reverts to the same state of mind and asks if she can come round to appraise his apartment. She arrives that evening, and Niles can hardly believe his eyes, also remembering her from school. Eventually, Frasier admits to Lorna the real reason he wanted to see her, and she takes it very well. In fact, she stays for dinner, and is still with Frasier the following morning. It is at this point that he sees another side to her: she smokes, she shouts down the phone, she is not very refined, and Frasier becomes concerned that they have no future together. However, soon afterwards she invites him to accompany her to the retirement dinner of their school football coach, and he imagines the reactions of the formerly popular children if they saw him arrive with Lorna.

Episode title cards

*"2 good / 2 be / 4gotten"
*"Ah, there's the rub"

Memorable Quotations

"Roz is in Café Nervosa when Frasier runs into Lorna"
Roz: So, are you going to ask her out?
Frasier: Oh right, Legs Lenley and Crane the Brain(!) In my dreams!